I'm taking 500 mg Levaquin 1x/day and 1000 mg Penicillin 3x/day.

Since onthe levaquin I feel lke i am moree symptomatic than just the biaxin and doxy.

I am going to ride it out if I can handle the depression. No tedon problems so far but i would say I ave some muscle soreness.

Hope this helps.

robi

I did best on 250mgs three times a day....whenever even a LLMD told me to go to 500MGS I felt my liver quiver and my kidneys hurt. So being my own best doctor I backed off to the 250mg dose three times a day...yeah maybe I gave the cheetes a break but I felt I also gave myself a break....even Sam Donata says that tetracycline three times a day is the best that he has come up with as far as dealing with the spirochete...why three times a day....I don't know,....I've tried more even with homeopathic or organic(like grapefruit seed extract} type parasite killers and three seems to be the basic thing in my body.
More makes me sicker than I care to tell you about and less does'nt seem to do enough...keep in mind three....that for me seems to be some kind of key...like three different kinds of antibiotics...which I have tried on my own.....without the knowledge of my llmd at the time....to tell you the truth I did'nt try that approach to long cuz it really made me sick....I tried a cephalosporin, a tetracycline and a pennicillin or mr. cyst buster flagyl...yeah
I thought I might do myself in but I also thought hey...if this thing can change it's protein structure at will than I should hit it with as many different abx's as my body could take....it did'nt kill me but made me feel pretty punk and I did'nt do it for long.
For about a month was all I could handle.

good luch to us all zman

It kind of makes sense to me. She said light exercise is ok. I really can't stop my strengthening program, because it reduces my pain so much. But I'm not increasing the weights until after quitting Levaquin.

I took the drug for 2 weeks then stoped for a week. Then took it for another weeks. I am prone to headaches and I did have problems with that (this drug can cause some brain swelling).

But I have been totally symptom free since taking this drug. Whatever it worked on...it worked!

I dont remember the dosage.

I was on this for 12 days - 500mg daily with Azithromycin 500mg daily for Bartonella...it didn't do much except make me very dizzy - so bad I had to stop.

The dizziness got worse with every dose and i started to get weakness in my hand...it is harder to tolerate with a macrolide.

Dr B has now put me on Rifampin and Clarithromycin instead.
Thankfully I never got the tendon damage.

cheers
Emma

Good to hear you're having success w/Traz. That stuff makes my fog go from partly cloudy to full overcast. It's better for sleep as it's purportedly not addictive.